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Archive As Artistic Practice

Archive As Artistic Practice documents artistic works created by researchers an d students in response to materials in the Flaxman Library Special Collections. Beginning with the event "Adrift in the Archive," which took place in the Special Collections during the library’s February 2015 campus-wide Bibliodérive, this collection explores the library’s place at the intersection of artistic practice and archival documentation. Rather than an attempt to breathe life back into recordings of ephemeral events, this collection demonstrates that the past provides a fertile base for the growth of something entirely new. The SAIC community is invited to explore, translate, perform, and re-classify our collections by creating unique knowledge maps and visual access points at future events.

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SAIC Digital Collections is the institutional repository for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). It presents curated selections of historic publications, archival materials, and artists’ works drawn from the library shelves and special collections throughout our campus. They are offered here for educational and research purposes. For more information on copyright or terms of use for SAIC Digital Collections, please see our Copyright Terms & Conditions page.